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The text of the article is more sober, but the title alarms me because I know a lot of people will look no further, and will spread more vaccine paranoia. There
by mullingitover 6y ago
The text of the article is more sober, but the title alarms me because I know a lot of people will look no further, and will spread more vaccine paranoia. There's already plenty of that and the press has been chasing clicks.
If you have a group of 10 million people, a certain number of them are statistically likely to die within the next 24 hours, vaccine or not. So a lot of spurious correlations are going to happen with mass vaccination, and many of them are going to end up in headlines. It's already happening[1] and the press is going to be responsible for a non-zero number of deaths from people who don't understand that it's sheer coincidence.
[1] https://nypost.com/2021/01/13/pfizer-cdc-probing-death-of-florida-doctor-who-took-covid-19-vaccine/ https://nypost.com/2021/01/13/pfizer-cdc-probing-death-of-fl...
- hugocbp 6y agoTrue. The title is more dire than the actual content of the article.